Dr Kirril Shields
Director of Education
Asia-Pacific Centre for The Responsibility to Protect
Kirril Shields works for the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, where here manages a number of projects in the region that work to curb atrocity and human rights abuse. He works as an Expert Consultant for the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and R2P and has worked for the World Bank and World Health Organisation in the past while living in Mongolia. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Genocide Studies and Prevention and he writes on topics that include foreign affairs and regional politics. Working with organisations in the South-east Asia region, he leads the Centre's training on the prevention of hate speech and disinformation, and he lectures at UQ on topics such as the history of genocide, world affairs and politics, and humanitarianism.
Book Chapters
Marczak, Nikki and Shields, Kirril (2020). The process and the personal cost of genocide. Genocide perspectives VI: the process and the personal cost of genocide. (pp. 1-6) Sydney, NSW Australia: University of Technology, Sydney. doi: 10.5130/aaf.a
Shields, Kirril (2017). Through German eyes: amateur photos and trans-generational renegotiations of the Holocaust. Genocide perspectives V: a global crime, Australian voices. (pp. 175-191) edited by Nikki Marczak and Kirril Shields. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UTS ePress. doi: 10.5130/978-0-9945039-7-8.m
Marczak, Nikki and Shields, Kirril (2017). Introduction. Genocide perspectives V: a global crime, Australian voices. (pp. 2-4) edited by Kirril Shields and Nikki Marczak. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UTS ePress. doi: 10.5130/978-0-9945039-7-8.a
Journal Articles
Shields, Kirril (2024). A politics of circulation, or a politics of identity?. Global Responsibility to Protect, 16 (3), 303-305. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-20240014
Shields, Kirril (2023). Review of Sing this at my funeral: a memoir of fathers and sons. David Slucki. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 37 (2), 333-334. doi: 10.1093/hgs/dcad017
Shields, Linda, Manning, Jennifer, McAllister, Margaret, O'Brien, Darren, Shields, Kirril, Emeto, Theophilus I., Lee Brien, Donna, Murray, John and Benedict, Susan (2021). Nursing ethics and the Holocaust: pilot of an innovation in teaching. Holocaust Studies, 28 (2), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1906077
Shields, Kirril, Nannicelli, Ted and Theriault, Henry (2018). Denial: David Irving, and the complexities of representing a Holocaust denier. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 12 (3), 40-51. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1573
Shields, Kirril (2016). Pushing aside the Nazi: personal and cultural exculpation and the everyday German in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 30 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/23256249.2016.1125593
Robertson, Michael, Shields, Kirril and Shields, Linda (2016). Introduction: Australian Perspectives: Genocide, the Health Professions, and an Inglorious Past. Health and History, 18 (2), 1-4. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.18.2.0001
Shields, Kirril Robert (2016). Communism usurping fascism: political propaganda in Jean Devanny's Roll Back the Night and Dymphna Cusack's Heat Wave in Berlin. Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 30 (1), 195-205. doi: 10.13110/antipodes.30.1.0195
Shields, Kirril (2016). Reshaping the Holocaust: Australian fiction, an Australian past, and the reconfiguration of "traditional" Holocaust narratives. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 22 (1), 65-83. doi: 10.1080/17504902.2016.1158539
Shields, Kirril (2015). What Happened to 'Old Asia'? Oh yeah, i killed it. Griffith Review, 2 (49), 7-13.
Shields, Linda, Hartin, Peter, Shields, Kirril and Benedict, Susan (2015). Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing and Medical Education in Australia. Working Papers in the Health Sciences, 1 (12), 1-4.
Shields, Kirril (2013). Review of Brendan Gleeson and Wendy Steele, eds, "A climate for growth: planning South-East Queensland", St Lucia. Queensland Review, 20 (2), 237-238. doi: 10.1017/qre.2013.28
Shields, Kirril (2012). The perfect blend. Monument (111), 50-55.
Shields, Kirril (2012). In profile: Christina Waterson. Australian Design Review (72).
Thesis
Shields, Kirril Robert (2014). Perpetrators, bystanders, and victims: Representations of the Third Reich in Australian fiction. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.43
Research Reports
Shields, Kirril and Forbes, Matthew (2023). Hate speech legislation in the Asia Pacific: a compendium. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland; Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. doi: 10.14264/8a7d451
Singpeng, Aim, Martin, Fiona, Gelber, Katharine and Shields, Kirril (2021). Facebook: regulating hate speech in the Asia Pacific. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Dept. Media and Communications, The University of Sydney, and The School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.25910/j09v-sq57
Shields, Kirril and Shields, Linda (2015). Review of Health Policies in Queensland for the TJ Ryan Foundation and Together Union. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/382318